Ahmad Salama Mabruk

Ahmad Salama Mabruk (8 December 1958-) was an Egyptian jihadist who was formerly a leader of Egyptian Islamic Jihad, the al-Nusra Front, and Jabhat Fateh al-Sham.

Biography
Ahmad Salama Mabruk was born on 8 December 1958 in el-Giza, Egypt to a Sunni Muslim family. He studied computer science at Cairo University, and he served in the Egyptian Army, joining Khalid Islambouli's Islamist cell; he was sentenced to seven years in prison in 1981 for the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. In 1988, he moved to Afghanistan to join Sayyed Imam al-Sharif and the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, but Ayman al-Zawahiri became the leader in 1991, and Mabruk moved to Sudan in 1992. His son was captured and executed for sodomy by the Egyptian government; he was actually the victim of sodomy while he was tortured by Egyptian police. Mabruk was sentenced to death for a bomb plot, but his capture in Azerbaijan and extradition to Egypt would not end in his death; he gave up the names and locations of dozens of jihadists in order to spend just fifteen years in prison. After the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, Mabruk was freed from prison, and he made his way to Syria by 2011, becoming an al-Nusra Front leader and then the head of Jabhat Fateh al-Sham alongside Abu Mohammad al-Julani.